n_maher

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I would at least suggest that if you're thinking about doing such things and if you're going to post about it, chose a non-public forum.

Does anyone here actually live close enough to stop by? As far as I know he has two locations, the amp workshop and the tube storage building.

I'm honestly betting that the street price (after an initial period of high demand) will probably drop much closer to $1000. But in the beginning, expect to pay pretty close if not MSRP for the privilege of early adoption. I know Headroom has been selling all of their D7000s at near list price because demand is high and they are one of the few with actual headphones to sell.

It came back and worked super-fast for me long enough to send a PM and they fizzled again.

Well, the HD800 appears to have been powerful enough to knockout Head-Fi for the time being. The site slowed to a crawl last night, was worse this morning and I get nothing but timeouts now.

Perhaps the first thing to do would be to see if someone might be willing to offer some pro bono legal advice and discuss your options and potential liabilities if you pursue something outside of small claims court. And small claims court is right up there next to worthless in some cases. My company has several outstanding judgements and while there are warrants issued for the individuals the local LEO's have far better things to do than track these guys down. So it's something like once every couple months there's an appearance date, the jackasses don't show, get served, post bond (we get a portion of this, but have to pay a fee to get them served IIRC), rinse, repeat, ad nauseum. I'm not trying to be discouraging and in truth am hoping for a positive outcome on all sides, Mikhail included. Recent evidence just isn't trending that way.

Denon D7000? Grado GS1000? Ultrasone? There're definitely similarly priced dynamic cans out there.

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And you won't need a $2000 headband from Mikhail.

Where's my severance package!

Oh snap, it's a sad day when you get fired by your lawyer. And Dreadhead, Amazon can put up a preorder for whatever they want and the find a distributor much like Buy.com operates. They are, in essence just a huge reseller. There is also the issue of initial supply limits and who Sennheiser would rather have selling those initial units. And I'd argue there's a hell of a lot larger market for high dollar camera gear than headphones.

It's clearly a different product category than the HD580/600/650 so the rules may indeed be different. Amazon's gig is to sell so much of something they can discount it and Sennheiser might not want to see their brand new headphone immediately discounted. And I don't think sales numbers are going to be all that high, or at least high enough that Amazon would be a major player. It's not like Amazon carries every headphone (no Stax, for example).

Rumor has it that Amazon isn't going to be allowed to sell them directly. The way I understand it they will only be distributed through Authorized dealers, kind of like Grado.

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Yes, that is my theory. And of course some amps are less tolerant than others of tubes that behave differently. blubliss, I don't know you enough to not like you, must not have gotten the PM or it got lost in the Lily shuffle. What set of tubes did you get from me?

I would recommend contacting Justin as well, could be he knows more about the GS-1 than doosik.

I love the fact that the kid says he learned how to drive from playing Grand Theft Auto.

I really wish Tom would post pictures of the power supply that he was shipped.

Get with it, would you? I've been hearing vague rumors about this project for longer than I can remember.

Too bad the music thus far (sampling 4 albums) has been largely unimpressive.

That's a LONG story and goes back 4 years or more. No way I'm typing it up or reliving it any time soon. And honestly it's really not worth it. Mistakes were made on both sides and for the most part everyone has moved on amicably. Even Tom understands that he made a mistake posting the original MiniMax thread in the way that he did. And I didn't read any attitude in your post.

It was way more than that and goes back almost as far as when drewd was (justly) banned from HF.

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